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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

Edward Albee

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Humor Joke Social
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Criticism Himself Judge Moral
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Interest Live Myself Production Run
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population

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